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Caritas launches urgent appeal for typhoon victims
Caritas Australia has launched an urgent appeal to support communities in the Philippines and Vietnam following a series of catastrophic weather events and natural disasters.
Darwin professionals volunteer to help disabled children in Timor Leste
A group of Northern Territory professionals is in Timor-Leste this week to help expand a vital disability care centre, offering new hope to some of the country’s most vulnerable children. Source: Darwin Diocese.
Good Sams launch appeal after typhoon batters Philippines island
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan Foundation has launched an urgent emergency appeal following the destruction caused by Typhoon Tino, which has severely impacted communities on the island of Negros in the Philippines.
Filipinos wear white to Mass in protest against corruption
Catholics in the Philippines wore white clothing to Mass on Sunday, following an appeal from their bishops as a symbolic gesture to call for renewal in the predominantly Catholic nation, which is grappling with corruption scandals. Source: UCA News.
Indonesian Catholics mobilise after building at Islamic school collapses
Following the collapse on Monday of a historic Islamic boarding school in East Java that, so far, has left three students dead and about 100 injured, the local bishop has said that Catholics are mobilising to take part in relief efforts. Source: Crux.
Church leaders back rally against corruption
Catholic clergy, religious and laity came out in droves at an anti-corruption rally in Manila, Philippines, on Sunday that drew tens of thousands of protesters. Source: Catholic Review.
Korean Catholics help tackle country’s rising suicide rate
The head of a Catholic church-run mental health group in South Korea says suicide prevention programs have saved many from taking their own lives, as the nation sees a rise in suicide-related deaths. Source: UCA News.
Indonesia’s bishops blame government for deadly protests
Indonesia’s Catholic bishops are blaming a deadly wave of civil unrest on “unwise and unjust words, actions” by the country’s government under President Prabowo Subianto. Source: Crux.
Myanmar bishop hopes to rebuild church bombed by military junta
A Catholic bishop in civil war-torn Myanmar voiced hope that “everyone will do their part” to rebuild a church destroyed in his diocese during a military junta airstrike against rebel groups. Source: UCA News.